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<h2>Natural Language Acquisition Group</h2>
<h3>at the University of Texas at Austin</h3>
<h1>Currently Proposed Papers</h1>
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Basili, Paziena, and Velardi: "<strong>
An empirical approach to natural language processing
</strong>"
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<dd> AI Journal, Vol 85
<dd> proposed by Ray Mooney, October 26, 1996


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Dekai Wu: "<strong>
A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation
</strong>"
<dd>
<dd> Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 152-158
<dd> proposed by Ray Mooney, July 8, 1996


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Ken Yip & Gerald Sussman: "<strong>
A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge
</strong>"
<dd>
<!WA1><a href="ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1575.ps.Z">
<i>download from</i> ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1575.ps.Z</a>
<dd> MIT AI Lab, AI Memo 1575
<dd> Comment: Some more on past tense (and plurals) using a symbolic constraint method.
<dd> proposed by Ray Mooney, May 2, 1996


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Ellen Riloff: "<strong>
Automatically Generating Extraction Patterns from Untagged Text
</strong>"
<dd>
<!WA2><a href="http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/psfiles/aaai96.ps">
<i>download from</i> http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/psfiles/aaai96.ps</a> (6 pages)
<dd> accepted for AAAI-96
<dd> <i>see also</i> Riloff, E. and Shoen, J.<i> paper below</i>
<dd> proposed by Ulf Hermjakob, April 26, 1996


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S. Soderland, D. Fisher, J. Aseltine and W. Lehnert: "<strong>
CRYSTAL: Inducing a Conceptual Dictionary
</strong>"  
<dd><i>IJCAI 1995</i>
<dd><i>pp. 1314-1319</i>
<dd> proposed by Mary Elaine Califf, March 18, 1996
<dd> MEC: I haven't read the paper, but the talk was fairly good.  It's basically
          an application of clustering.


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R. Bod.: "<strong>
Using an Annotated Language Corpus as a Virtual Stochastic Grammar
</strong>"  
<dd><i>AAAI'93 </i>
<dd><i>pp. 778-783</i>
<dd> proposed by Ray Mooney, September 13, 1995


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<dt>
Riloff, E. and Shoen, J.: "<strong>Automatically Acquiring Conceptual Patterns 
without an Annotated Corpus</strong>" 
<dd>in WVLC-95, p. 148-162.
<dd><i>this isn't as good, but ok</i>
<dd>proposed by Cindi Thompson, July 19, 1995


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Niyogi, Partha. Berwick, Robert C.: "<strong>A Markov Language Learning Model
for Finite Parameter Spaces</strong>"
<dd>ACL Proc. of 32nd Annual Meeting, 1994, pp. 171-80
<dd>proposed by Ken Samuel, Sept. 28, 1994


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<dt>
Soderland and Lehnert: "<strong>Corpus-Driven Knowledge Acquisition for Discourse
Analysis."</strong>
<dd> AAAI94
<dd>proposed by John Zelle, Sept. 15, 1994


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Hastins and Lytinen: "<strong>The ups and downs of lexical acquisition.</strong>" 
<dd>AAAI94
<dd>proposed by John Zelle, Sept. 15, 1994


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Patricia M. Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: 
"<strong> Grammatical Combination in Pan Paniscus: 
Processes of Learning and Invention in the Evolution and Development of Language</strong>"
<dd>from <i>``Language'' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: 
              Comparative Developmental Perspectives</i>
<dd> Cambridge University Press, 1989
<dd> Editors: Sue Taylor Parker and Kathleen Rita Gibson
<dd> Risto: entertaining paper about animal learning of language
<dd>proposed by Risto Miikkulainen, Dec. 20, 1993
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